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The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma
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so I should keep the trolley running to kill the 1 billion people, and not divert it to run over my neighbors cousins old and dying cat?
It's crazy how if you change the situation entirely you get a different result and optimal action
The point of the trolley problem isn't really about utilitarianism or whatever, it's to demonstrate that inaction can be an action.
The action/non-action question is one part of the problem, but not the sole or defining one to me. An certainly there is no simple answer as you suggest.
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